284 HYMENOPTERA. 



vStony Is. 554." The male is similar to the female with 

 the exception of the secondary sexual characters. The an- 

 tennae are normal, 12-jointed, the first funicle joint is twice 

 the length of the pedicel, subequal to the distal joint ; other 

 flagellar joints a fourth or more longer than the first or last 

 one, moderately long and slender, longitudinally striated, 



6. Anaphes iole species nova. 



Normal position. 



Female. — Length, 0.75 mm. Moderately small for the genus. 



Differing from the species of the type of nigellus in having a longer, 

 more slender thorax, hence a more slender body and in having the 

 fore wings broader, vrith less curvature in either margin, the apex 

 more rounded and the discal ciliation finer, not as long or coarse. 

 The body hence like that of gracilis and pallipes, less hump-backed 

 than with sinipennis and nigrellus, the fore wings also less fumated, 

 more clear. The species like /»a//?^^.y Ashmead, excepting as has been 

 or will be noted. 



General color black, suffused with some brownish ; end of the mar- 

 ginal vein, the pedicel in places, the trochanters, tips of femora and 

 tibiae pallid, the rest of the legs, venation and antennae dusky. Fore 

 wings clear, excepting all that portion proximad of the venation. 

 Posterior wings hyaline. 



Thorax long, the abdomen shorter, but conic-ovate, sessile, the ovi- 

 positor not exserted. Legs as in the preceding species. Mandibles 

 with three weakly indicated sinuations. 



Fore wings as in pallipes but slightly broader (about fourteen longi- 

 tudinal lines of discal cilia at the widest blade portion), the longest 

 marginal cilia subequal to but slightly shorter than the greatest wing 

 width. Posterior wings, a single line cephalad, a paired line caudad 

 of discal ciliation, the latter apart some distance and in the disk a line 

 containing about four cilia each far apart from the other in the line, 

 and the first some distance proximad from the wing apex. Longest 

 marginal cilia of the posterior wings slightly shorter than those of the 

 fore wing. In the fore wing, discal ciliation absent proximad of the 

 usual oblique limiting line running out from the marginal vein. Mar- 

 ginal vein distinctly shorter than the naked area just distad of it but 

 about four and a half times longer than wide. 



Antennae 9-jointed, normal. Pedicel six or seven times larger than 

 the small subquadrate proximal funicle joint, subequal to or slightly 

 longer than joint 2 of the funicle, but very much broader, obconic ; 

 second funicle joint next shortest of the funicle, two and a half or three 

 times longer than joint one, slender yet widening somewhat distad ; 

 funicle joint 3 longest of the funicle, a third longer than 2 and dis- 

 tinctly not so slender ; 4 and 5 subequal, cylindrical-ovate, broader, a 



